"The basic image of Stoker is that of a respectable Anglo-Irish gentleman who was very hard working and devoted to his boss," Skal said. "It's a stuffy cardboard cutout. It's not a person. "He was a ...
“Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, The Man Who Wrote “Dracula’” by David J. Skal; Liveright (652 pages, $35) Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, ...
Obsessed with the 1897 Gothic horror novel and its Hollywood permutations since childhood, the filmmaker now admits the author "was a bit of a hack." By Robert Eggers Touting its “terror, eroticism, ...
The work by Bram Stoker, previously unknown to scholars, will be read and included in a book launched during Dublin’s annual Bram Stoker Festival. By Sarah Lyall Brian Cleary, a clinical pharmacist in ...
Sir,– I read with relish "Anglo-Vampirish – Frank McNally on Bram Stoker and the politics of Dracula" (An Irishman's Diary, October 10th). Whether or not the culmination of Dracula taking place in ...
Several years ago, I read the book “Dracula” for the first time, expecting that Bram Stoker’s 19th-century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of Dracula’s many screen ...
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